Frankie Cosmos Quotes

I write a lot more when I'm happy, because you're hopeful, you're motivated.

When I think of the future, I think a lot of Quincy Jones and how he is an inspiration. Look at the quality of his work over so many years. He didn't even make his best record, 'Thriller,' until he was 50. That gives me something to look forward to. Nothing pulls you back into the studio more than the belief that your best record is still ahead.

All I know is that my best work has come out of being committed and happy.

I am very fortunate to be doing something I completely love, so it is certainly not hard to get motivated. Watching people sing along and put their hands in the air is a very powerful thing. I'm 63, but I don't feel it. I feel like I'm in my 40s. I enjoy life.

I'd like to think you don't stop being creative once you get happy.

I wake up every day, make awesome music with awesome people, and tour the world, which is incredible.

I've waited so long to get to this point, and I'm so happy to be making my first album. I want to be a performer and an entertainer.

All of the people we admire have extensive catalogs, so what's most exciting about people responding well to the band is allowing us to continue making as many records as we can.

In the same way, I write some of my more difficult pieces when I'm at very happy stages in my life.

God created me to delight people with my goals.

I am always writing. It is not always good, but if I am writing, I am usually happy.

For me, love is happiness and inspiration.

I write the songs and hand it over to the world and see what happens. But the things that I've written for people that have been hits, I don't know that I would have directed them in the right path, but they definitely wound up on the right path.

My advice is: if you've got to be miserable to write great music, then drive a truck.

The most successful person is the one who is most inspired. That is true in food and in life.

In 29 years, I had recorded over 2,200 songs. I was amazed.

But once I acclimated and really used fame for what it was offering me as a tool to serve my life purpose of inspiring and contributing, then it started to get fun again.

I would like to pick Rihanna's brain. I love her style and what she does.

When I feel like every day when I get up I'm writing songs, that's the time to make a record.

You're successful if you can get one person to pick it up and put it on the turntable and go, Wow, thanks for writing that!

I'm happy, I'm in a good place, I'm looking forward to my future.

Happiness is such a good state, it doesn't need to be creative. You're not creative from happiness, you're just happy. You're creative when you're miserable and depressed. You find the key to transform things. Happiness does not need to transform.

I'm so happy when I'm working.

My focus is trying to make great music and putting on great shows, and whatever happens beyond that is a bonus to me.

I had a long, long time to make 'Rubberband,' and I originally thought that that record would last two years. Once I got over realizing that that's not gonna happen, and sort of got my perspective back, I realized, 'Man I'm really fortunate. I get to write music, make music for a living.'